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The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SAS (I-VII)/ SASA (VIII/) is a scientific periodical of international significance which publishes papers in ethnology/anthropology. From its inception in 1952, the Bulletin publishes the results of scientific research projects of scientists and associates of the Institute and other affiliated institutions in the country and abroad. In addition, discussions and articles, supplements, field data, retrospectives, chronicles, reviews, translations, notes, bibliographies, obituaries, memories, critiques and similar are published as well. The Bulletin was founded as a means to publish the results of research of settlements and origins of populations, folk life, customs and folk proverbs. However, the concept of the Bulletin, like that of any other contemporary scientific journal, changed over time to accommodate the social, cultural and political processes and research trends in the social sciences and humanities.
The Bulletin (GEI) is referenced in the electronic bases: DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory and SCIndex (Serbian Citation Index). All articles are digitally available in a form typographically true to the original (in .pdf format). The Bulletin is also available in the same form on the website of the Institute of Ethnography SASA.
The Bulletin (GEI SANU) can also be found and read at CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library): http://www.ceeol.com
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- Scientific policies and research entities in historical self-reflection
- Analyzing a scientific institution and its protagonists in diachronic perspective also entails different levels of (self)assessment - retrospection, introspection, and extrospection, which also points out to turmoils, stratifications, and contradictions of scientific temporal strategies. In this paper I am interpreting processes of the establishment of normative strategies, institutional politics, construction of collectivities, and individual aspirations at the Institute of Ethnography SASA from 1947 until present. Historical self-reflection encompasses five options through which scientific subjectivities and objectivities were formed and confronted: 1. Routinization of meaningful systems and sliding individual inventiveness; 2. Efficiency of the institutional order and distinctiveness in reaching scientific goals; 3. Determined order and individual agility in the zone of enterprising and skillful activism; 4. Consistency of scientific order and constant dynamics in the zones of public visibility; 5. Verifiability in accordance with institutional standards and coordinated work at the collegial level. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177026: Kulturno nasleđe i identitet]
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- Section of Ethnologists – Serbian Museum Society
- Сажетак Секција етнолога – Музејско друштво Србије У музејима Србије данас ради велики број музеолошки оспособљених стручњака, који имају академско образовање дипломираног етнолога или етнолога/антрополога. Због великог броја „етнолога музеалаца“ који су чланови струковне организације Музејско друштво Србије (у наставку:МДС) – тј. због чињенице да у 46 музеја ради укупно 86 етнолога – према статуту МДС-а започела је рад Секција етнолога (у наставку: ЕС МДС).
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- Serb community in Gnjilane
- The paper is based on field research carried out among members of the Serb community in the town of Gnjilane in 2006. I first discuss the multi-sited fieldwork, whose goal was to study the relation between ethnicity and other forms of collective identification in the Serb community in southeast Kosovo, in the profoundly changed situation that has existed since 1999. The key concept of this paper - nostalgia - is then established. I go on to discuss the population of Gnjilane as reflected in the census, and the possibility of a census that would reflect the complex social and ethnic situation in Kosovo. I also describe the small urban Serb enclave in Gnjilane in the post-war period. In the radically changed ethnic and social landscape that followed the war, the discourse of members of the small urban enclave about themselves and the other is a kaleidoscope of reflective nostalgia. Looked at “from above”, the perspective of ordinary people, the past takes on a wider spectrum of colours and emotions than the official black and white images - both Serbian and Kosovan - of victims, aggressors and never-ending hatred. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177027: Multietnicitet, multikulturalnost, migracije - savremeni procesi]
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- Serbia from Miki and Kupinovo to Europe
- This paper deals with the analysis of public performance and social role of a media star in the post-socialist Serbia on the example of Miki Đuričić, the participant of the first series of reality show Big brother in this region. The issues are regarded through the prism of theater anthropology of Erving Goffman, corrected and complemented with Baudrillard's concepts of simulacrum and simulation. Discursive, symbolic, social, cultural and political practices are discussed as well as the impact of that performance and the efforts of their representation in the light of 'new face of Serbia'.
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- Serbian colony in Thessalonica
- The church of Saint Sava is located at center of Thessalonica; from 1896, the church served as a parish church for Serbian population. The church Register from 1896-1945 is used in this paper. The Serbs from Thessalonica were mostly craftsmen, bankers and traders. All engaged in business that required the knowledge of Greek language, but still had a need for Serbian parish and church services in Serbian language. And although Serbian, the parish was also open to other ethnic groups. For example, Russians used its services for baptism, and there are data indicating that a certain proportion of Jews Muslims, Protestant and Catholics got converted in the church, confirming its missionary dimension. These individuals kept their first names even after the conversions. The Serbs named their children in Serbian fashion, not Greek. However, the Serbs from Thessalonica who came to ex- Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, after WW II, encountered a different situation. Macedonian influence is evident in their first and last names. For instance, name Andjelija becomes Anga, and last name Filipovic becomes Filipovski. The respected parents were Serbs. There is only one case where an adopted Greek raised by Serbs in Thessalonica, had changed his first and last name in Macedonian fashion. The phenomenon assumes preservation of Serbian names in ethnically totally different environment, such as Greece, and the absence of the same in ethnically similar environment such as Macedonia.
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- Serbian schools and teaching of Serbian language in Greece in the 20th century
- The topic of this work is Serbian schools and the teaching of Serbian language in Greece in the 20th century. During the first half of the 20th century the existence of Serbian people in Turkey (later in Greece) was acknowledged through school and church. Thanks to the Serbian schools, Serbs as an invisible minority became a visible one. In the second half of the 20th century there is primarily a teaching of Serbian language as a foreign language. During this period, Serbian was accepted primarily by Greeks at courses and private classes. At the beginning of the nineties in the 20th century because of the war in the territory of Yugoslavia, a large number of refugees went to Greece. Teaching of Serbian as a native language was organized only ten years later (at the beginning of 21st century). In some places, the schools are located in consular sections and have the assistance of the country of origin (Thessalonica, Katerini) while in Hani (Crete) immigrants organized them-selves without the assistance from the country of origin. By studying Serbian schools and the teaching of Serbian language, this work considers relation towards language as a symbol of ethnic identity - at the individual level, at the level of receiving country and at the level of country of origin.
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- Serbs and Slovenians
- Stevanović, Lada - Serbs and Slovenians: Migrations, meeting of people, ideas and ideologies - Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU
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- Sericulture in Boka Kotorska Bay (17th-20th)
- In the 19th century Boka Kotorska, sericulture - silk-worm breeding and processing -was highly developed. Based on unpublished arhivalia from the Montenegro National Archives, - Records Department of Herceg Novi - and on published materials from the Historic Archives of Kotor and the Historic Archives of Zadar, along with the related literature, the paper deals with the silk-worm breeding, scope of silk production, operation of spinner mills, planting and cultivation of mulberry trees, whose leaves were used for silk-worm feeding. The Austrian authorities, ranging from the Zadar Regency and the Kotor County Hall, with local councils, through the Silk-Worm Breeding Society and the Bay of Kotor Economy Association, were actively engaged in developing the silk production and enhancing the quality of this economic activity. According to what has been said, it appears that silk-worm breeding was practiced in both rural and urban settlements of the entire Boka Kotorska Bay. The silk-worm breeding entailed the planting of mulberry trees which survived even after the silk-worm breeding had ceased to exist, as mulberry fruit was used to feed pigs and poultry, to make brandy, and because the wood - mulberry lumber - was highly valued in ship building. Mulberry trees were grown in urban settlements as they provided a reliable shade. The silk-worm breeding was discontinued towards and during World War One, whereas the mulberry tree planting persisted until World War Two
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- Settlements and population of Gokčanica in medieval and early modern times
- This paper discusses development of settlements and population dynamics of the Gokčanica region in the first centuries of Ottoman administration. By analyzing several unpublished Ottoman land registers and financial books, the authors are showing that this mining region was organized as a separate administrative unit during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, and how it covered a territory larger than the one presently understood as the area of Gokčanica. The amplitudes of mining and ferrous metallurgy, which were the dominant local industry, influenced the migrations of population and settlement models. The most populous villages were not established in places best fitted for living, but in those most convenient for operation of smelters, which also influenced other economic activities. Contrary to popular tradition, population of Gokčanica was entirely Serb and Eastern Orthodox, and isolated from the Islamization process. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177030: Od univerzalnih carstava do nacionalnih država. Društvo i političke promene u Srbiji i na Balkanu]
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- Shaping the pain
- This paper is the continuation of a wider research, presented with its first part: Shaping the pain: Ancient Greek Lament and Its Therapeutic Aspect. In the mentioned papers’ focus is creative- therapeutic aspect of a lament. The pain verbalized, revealed and shared with others -becomes itself a more bearable burden both for the woman that laments and for the bereaved family. Related to this therapeutic is the creative aspect of lament: the woman that mourns has to lament in order to make it easier for herself and others; but while lamenting, she is creating something. Deeply rooted in funeral ritual, a lament respects certain ritual rules, and yet it is a spontaneous expression of pain. A role of a lament in ancient Greek ritual is, as always when it comes to the Greek culture, an inexhaustible topic. The theme of a lament within ancient Greek tragedy is particularly interesting. Although tragedy belongs to literary tradition, it is a trustworthy source for ancient Greek ritual practice; a lament within tragedy is thus a ritual lament, and not only a literary one. Therapeutic aspect of a lament is also in the focus of this paper which examines "shaping of the pain" in few case studies. Inspired by laments of Montenegrin women, those that I have heard or read, I am re-reading Euripides’ Electra and Electra by Danilo Kiš (in which both Euripides’ drama and Montenegrin folklore is reflected), I am watching the Michalis Kakojannis’ movie Electra. Electra’s pain for loss, her sorrowful dirge, the one that through despair leads to anger and revengefulness, is found written or filmed: it is captured in a work of art, but it emits folklore and ritual characteristics. From that perspective I am re-reading one of the most beautiful Serbian epic poems, The Death of Jugović's Mother, which tells us about a mother that didn’t lament. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 47016: Interdisciplinary Research of Serbian Cultural and Linguistic Heritage; Creation of Multimedial Internet Portal "The Lexicon of Serbian Culture]
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- Shaping the pain
- In this paper, which is the first part of a wider research, I focus on different aspects of ancient Greek lament. One of its most important aspects is the therapeutic aspect: by verbalizing, revealing the pain and by sharing it with others, the pain itself is becoming more bearable both for the woman that laments and for the bereaved family. Related to this therapeutic is the creative aspect of lament: the woman that mourns has to lament in order to make it easier for herself and others; but while lamenting, she is creating something. In spite of this constructive, let us call it creative-therapeutic potential, the lament carries in itself a different, rather dark and gloomy potential, if it calls for vengeance, not reconciling with the fact of someone dear’s death. Deeply rooted in funeral ritual, a lament respects certain ritual rules, and yet it is a spontaneous expression of pain. Examining these mutually dependent aspects of lament, I will turn attention to the position of lament in Greek rites and tragedy, that summit Greek art and literature. Ritual lament within ancient tragedy is, as always when it comes to Greek culture, an inexhaustible topic. Although tragedy belongs to literary tradition, it is a trustworthy source for ancient Greek ritual practice; lament within tragedy is thus a ritual lament, and not only a literary one. Characters of many tragedies will mention the therapeutic aspect of lament, examined in this paper: they consider tears, wails and words directed to the deceased as joyful service, enjoyment, music, song precious and indispensable. This paper has its supplement, shaping the pain in few case studies. Inspired by laments of Montenegrin women, those that I have heard or read, I am re-reading Euripides’ Electra and Electra by Danilo Kiš (in which both Euripides’ drama and Montenegrin folklore is reflected), I am watching the Michalis Kakojannis’ movie Electra. Electra’s pain for loss, the one that through despair leads to anger and vengefulness, is found written or filmed: it is captured in work of art, but it emits folklore and ritual characteristics. Her sorrowful dirge, hers and of so many other women, is deeply rooted in funeral rites, and so, although a spontaneous expression of grief, it obeys certain ritual rules. One of the most important aspects of the lament is its therapeutic aspect: by verbalizing, expressing, externalizing pain and by sharing it with others, the pain itself becomes more bearable both for woman that laments and for other bereaved. From that perspective I am re-reading one of the most beautiful Serbian epic poems, The Death of Jugović's Mother, which tells us about a mother that didn’t lament.
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- Shrinking capitalism, “milky ways”, and the moral appreciation of Serbia’s “living village”
- This ethnographic case study, building on long term participant observation in Serbia, tackles the relationship of the state and the regional economy during the transformations from self-managed socialism to late capitalism. Embedding the work relations of small-scale dairy farmers from central Serbia in wider moral economic relations, it develops the notion of ‘moral appreciation’ to explain how many households who disinvested from dairy production supported - through labour exchanges, by renting land cheaply, and by praising the frugality of those few others - who invested. Moral appreciation means living from and salvaging value from the devalued substance of work past and present, an adaptive process to capitalist substance-loss, potentially paralleled in many other spheres of the capitalist world economy.